In this episode of the Artsy Raven Podcast hosted by JF Garrard, author Yiming Ma talks about leaving the tech and finance world to write and the process of publishing his debut novel, These Memories Do Not Belong to Us (Mariner Books, 2025). Read “Writing in the Age of AI: The Case for Collective Resistance” by Ma in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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